Camp convenience chair



Patent-ed Dec. 18, 1928 UNITED STATES JQHN HARRISON, or ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAMP CONVENIENCE 01mm.

Application filed April 5, 1926. Serial No. 99,713.

This invention relates to an improvement in portable or so called camp stools and toilet seats.

The object of my invention is to provide a combination camp stool and toilet seat.

Another object of my invention is to pro- 'videa chair that may be used interchangeably either as a stool or a toilet seat.

Another object of my invention is to provide a combination stool and toilet seat which is capable of being easily folded .or set up when desired.

The invention will be hereinafter considered in detail and specifically claimed. Reference will now be had to the drawing formin a part of this application, wherein there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention, but. it is understood that the elements thereof can be varied or changed as for shape, size or form without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a side View of the stool, in its set up position.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the stool in its set up position.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device when used as a tool.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the device showing the toilet seat arrangement.

5 shows the device in its folded position.

10 and 11 represent two pair of legs which are attached solidly by means of bolts 12 and 13 or other fastening members, to two U shaped bars 14 and 15 respectively. Into two grooves 16 and 17 which are formed by the U shaped bars 14; and 15 there is inserted the ends of the toilet seat 18. This toilet. seat is made of a rectangular piece of canvas or other suitable material, having an aperture or opening 19. The ends'of the legs 10 and 11 and the ends of the seat are inserted into the grooves 16 and 17. The bolts 12 and 13 pass through the ends of the legs, the bars, and the ends of the toilet seat. The seat is thereby solidly secured to the bars within their grooves. In order to further secure the canvas to the bars, the sides of the bars may be pressed together tightly or the canvas may be sewed around a the bars, thereby securing the canvas along their entire ends.

To the top of the toilet seat at 20, I attach one end of a rectangular pieceof canvas 22 or other suitable material. The other end of the canvas, which is used for a seat is detachably connected by means of buttons 21 or other fastening members. This seat 22 when buttoned or fastened and used as a seatv is shorter than the toilet seat. This is done for the reason that when the device is used as an ordinary seat, the entire weight comes directly on the seat 22.

Thelegs 11 are reenforced by a rod 23 con necting the two legs solidly. The legs 10 are reenforced by bars 24 and 25 connecting thelegs to the bar 14.

To the back of the flap 18 I may attach a pocket or container for toilet paper. The pocket will be so arranged that it fits into the hole 19. I may also provide the chair with a back like an ordinary chair. I may also provided a container to be attached underneath the opening to receive the excretion.

The opening 19 is reenforced by inserting along its edge and enclosed with the cloth, which is cut bias, a semi-pliable material, to give it strength and form and also to allow it to be folded when the chair is folded. I may also strengthen the toilet seat by inv serting the same semi-pliable materialfalong the edges of the toilet seat and. enclosed within the cloth.

From this it will be seen that when the top seat-is attached to the chairby means of the buttons or fastening member, then the chair is used as an ordinary camp chair. The

weight of the person coming directly on the top seat. or flap. If, however, 1t 1S to be used as a convenience chair, the top cover or flap is detachable and folded or thrown back, ex-

posing thetoilet seat and in position to be used as a toilet seat.

claim is:

A camp convenience chair consisting of two pair of legs, means permitting it to be used as a toilet seat consisting of two U shaped bars to which each pair of legs is connected, a rectangular piece of canvas with an aperture therein solidly connected to the U shaped members, and means permitting it to be used as a chair, without exerting any pressure on the toilet seat, consisting of a rectangular piece of canvas solidly connected on one side to the canvas of the toilet seat and detachably connected to the opposite end of the chair, said seat being shorter'than the corresponding part of the toilet seat.

JOHN HARRISON. 

